The Ducks have signed defenseman Andy Welinski to a two-year entry-level contract. Per club policy, financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Welinski, 22 (4/27/93), scored 6-13=19 points in 40 games with the Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs of the National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC) this season. The 6-2, 205-pound fourth-year senior was a Second-Team All-NCHC and named NCHC Defenseman of the Week three times in 2015-16. As captain of the Bulldogs, Welinski led team defensemen in scoring, goals, points per game (0.47) and plus/minus (+13) while co-leading in assists and assists per game (0.33).
Selected by Anaheim in the third round (83rd overall) of the 2011 NHL Draft, the Duluth, MN native scored 24-53=77 points in 154 career games for his hometown team.